by joppuyo 5 (17 reviews)

Disable Media Pages

Name: Disable Media Pages
Rating: 5.0 (17 reviews)
Author: joppuyo

Completely remove "attachment" pages for WordPress media. Improve SEO and prevent conflicts between page and image permalinks.

Disable Media Pages ranks #1,923 among WordPress.org plugins with 10,000+ active installations, is #192 of 6,314 in the Media category, a 5/5 rating from 17 reviews, and was last updated Aug 4, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.8 (Current: 7.1)

v4.0.0 Current Version v4.0.0

Updated 1 year ago Last Update on 04 Aug, 2025

Refreshed 6 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#192 of 6,314 in Media Top 5% by installs Downloads -17.4% this week No update in over a year

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#1,923

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10K+

-27.8%

KW Avg Position

97.4

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87.2K

+38 today

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100%

Review 5 out of 5

5 (17 reviews)

Next Milestone 20K

Total Progress 37.3%

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Plugin Details

Version: 4.0.0
Last Updated: Aug 04, 2025
Requires WP: 6.0+
Tested Up To: 6.8
PHP Version: 8.0 or higher
Author: joppuyo

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 5
Reviews: 17
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and administrators who want to eliminate SEO and permalink problems caused by automatically generated attachment pages. It removes attachment pages by setting a 404 status for them and mangling attachment slugs so they no longer conflict with reserved page URLs.

Disables WordPress attachment pages
Returns 404 for attachment pages
Sets unique attachment slugs
Mangles existing attachment slugs
Restores attachment slugs
WP CLI support

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Disable Media Pages

Go to the Settings ▸ Disable Media Pages ▸ Mangle existing slugs. This will show you a wizard to mangle existing attachment slugs.

First of all, not everyone uses Yoast SEO. More importantly, while Yoast SEO can fix the duplicate content issue, it does not help with issue of media files reserving slugs for pages.

Instead of displaying a 404 HTTP error, some people recommend you to redirect attachment pages to the parent page instead. I think this can be a good short-term solution if the attachment pages have been indexed by Google and you want to preserve SEO ranking for these URLs. There's a plenty of plugins on the plugin directory that let you to do that. In my opinion returning the 404 error is the correct long-term solution and if you are launching a new site, it's best to simply disable these pages so they won't ever end up in Google index.

The unique id is an UUIDv4, without dashes.

Yes, this functionality is available in version 1.1.0. The attachment slug restoration tool allows you to restore the attachment slugs back to ones based on the attachment title.

Yes, check out the GitHub repository.